A broken water main has been fixed after causing disruption to a stretch of a Brooklyn street, forcing the street to be closed off after part of it caved and nearly swallowed a school bus.
The 72nd precinct tweeted photos of the bus and sinkhole on Tuesday evening. The precinct told drivers to stay away from 23rd Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues in Windsor Terrace.
A school bus collapsed into the sinkhole on Tuesday — luckily, no children were on board.
The stretch of 23rd Street was closed Wednesday morning as crews searched for the broken pipe. By 3 p.m they had found and repaired the broken water main believed to have caused the urban trench, a Department of Environmental Protection spokesman said.
There were reports that the broken main left hundreds of people in the area without water. Gas had also been cut off in the area Wednesday morning.
